By Shirley L. Kearney, editor, member of AWC Basel and featured in Beyond Borders: Portraits of American Women around The World. 272 pages, with 90 color photos, 29 color illustrations, 101 b/w photos, 90 b/w illustrations. Hardcover, thread sewing, with bookmark. ISBN 3-908142-23-7 www.spalentor-verlag.ch or
This book is a unique perspective of Basel - its waters, history, people, churches, architecture, traditions, legends, and more - as portrayed by several Americans and Swiss, all of whom have experienced a special relationship with the city. An easy-to-read, non-academic text, based on the 1986 publication, corroborated by Basel experts in the museum, art history and cultural environments; personalized with historical images, photos and original artwork. Here is Basel as it has never been seen before, as it was yesterday and is today, with the people and forces that have influenced its development.
Join us on a short journey through its history and traditions as we go behind doors and windows, opening your eyes and revealing an unknown and fascinating picture of Basel. This book will make us all members of the FCB - the FAN CLUB of BASEL.For non-English speakers, a bonus is offered; the opportunity to improve your knowledge of English, while learning about Basel in a new light.
http://www.spalentor-verlag.ch/
An original concept and [production! The author's honorarium of SFRs 20,000 was offered directly to The FAWCO Foundation Awards Fund
Batya M. Goldman has been working in the counseling and healing professions for more than twenty years. Her work has covered everything from religious and spiritual counseling to hospice care of Cancer and AIDS patients, holistic healing, Reiki, Oriental Medicine and the various therapeutic disciplines of Natural Health. Her practical experience has yielded an initial effort in the form of this book.
Book Price: $18.00USD - ISBN: 965-555-160-1 For information regarding the purchase of this book please contact Batya at
Available only from the author who asks for a 20 Euro donation to The Friends of the Trees, Greece. Contact .
Lara Santoro, the daughter of FAUSs Metropolitan Boston coordinator Barbara Santoro, has just published her first book. The book is called “Mercy,” and it deals with the AIDS epidemic in Africa .It is available from Amazon, as well as in bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders in the U.S., and will soon be published in the UK:
http://www.amazon.com/Mercy-Lara-Santoro/dp/1590512715/ref=ed_oe_h
“Mercy” is the compelling story of a journalist in Africa covering the AIDS epidemic, and the language is lean, the imagery both profoundly sad and emotionally powerful– this was a book that I started after lunch, read until 2AM, and continued the next morning, still in my bathrobe, until I finished. It is a book that brought tears to my eyes as I read the final pages, and one that affected me so powerfully that I feel compelled to recommend it.
Lara is a journalist who has worked for the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek, and lived on assignment in Africa. She grew up in Italy, with an American mother (Barbara) and an Italian father (Raffaele), and graduated from Smith. Lara is a true FAWCO child, growing up in Italy .
While her book is classified as fiction, it is truly her own story. It is a picture of Africa that many of us don’t want to see.
Check out My-Linh's new photography book about FAWCO women ! A must-have for your bookshelf and a perfect gift idea for the special women in your life.
BEYOND BORDERS: Portraits of American Women from around the World celebrates inspirational FAWCO women who are making a difference in their local communities.
It is a beautiful coffee-table black & white photography book with essays written by another FAWCO member, Charlotte Fox Zabusky.
Available worldwide from www.americans-beyond-borders.com
Available in the USA from Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Borders-Portraits-American-around/dp/3000239901/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205914104&sr=8-1
Piano Girl: A Memoir, Robin Meloy Goldsby. Backbeat Books. Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Goldsby regales readers with stories from her 30 years as a cocktail lounge pianist in this vivacious memoir. Starting out in dreary roadhouse bars and motels during the 1970s, Goldsby eventually worked her way up to tonier venues: the Marriott Marquis and the Grand Hyatt in New York City, a posh resort in Haiti, castles in Europe. Along the way there were false starts-an audition for the circus, a few months singing in an ill-fated all-girl nightclub act, a stint as a piano-playing stripper. It’s all the stuff of comedy for Goldsby, who has a wicked sense of humor and a keen eye for the absurd. Playing in a bar is great, she figures, because she can watch the never-ending show on the other side of the piano: the celebrities, nobodies, drunks, tipsy matrons, stalkers, music lovers and music haters, and a rogues’ gallery of colorful misfits. She even finds humor in her replacement at the New York Marriott-a mannequin seated at a player-piano. She also has a touching affection for her assorted co-workers, who include a waiter who charms everyone with his “tragic optimism” after having been diagnosed with AIDS, a restroom attendant who sells designer dresses out of a toilet stall for the handicapped and a waitress whom Goldsby inspires to start her own career as a pianist. This is a bighearted, funny, truly eye-opening memoir. Available worldwide. Amazon.com
www.goldsby.de
Such is LIfe in the Tropics - How difficult can it be to survive in paradise?, by Mercedes de Marchena, member of the AWC in Curacao, FAWCO Regional Coordinator for Region 10 and Rep for more than 5 years, writes a lighthearted and humorous, but moving account of life as an expatriate in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles where her husband's family has been since 1659. They came from Spain and Portugal by way of Holland. She moved there in 1982 and stayed for more than 20 years. In the book, she details numerous ways to survive while capturing the unique experience of expatriate life in the Tropics. Mercedes had a list of reasons to leave, but when the time came, it was far more difficult than she expected. Now living in Miami, she is compiling a list of reasons to go back. Chapter Seven has impressions and memories of FAWCO. Date published: September 2007.
Purchase: www.amazon.com worldwide
Or through her publisher: http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~38428.aspx